Dr. Kwegyir Aggrey "Only the best is good enough for Africa."
Kwame Nkrumah "The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa."
A new report accuses a Chinese company of illegal deforestation in Congo, but there’s debate over which country is responsible. Over a six-month period, last year, Congo King Baisheng Forestry Development exported $5 million – or about 30 million kilograms — in illegally logged hardwood to timber conglomerate Wan Peng through Zhangjigang Port, the environmental […]
GUILIA PARAVICINI & DAWIT ENDESHAW A fresh eruption of fighting in northern Ethiopia has raised concerns among residents about the safety of rock-hewn churches in the town of Lalibela dating back to the 12th and 13th centuries. Fano militiamen fighting the Ethiopian army in the Amhara region over-ran Lalibela and Gondar for several days in […]
The UN human rights office (OHCHR) expressed alarm on Friday November 3, over reports that in Sudan, women and girls are being abducted, chained and held in “inhuman, degrading slave-like conditions” in areas controlled by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Darfur. The stark report comes against the backdrop of a sharp uptick in fighting […]
King Charles III said Tuesday October 31 there could be “no excuse” for British colonial atrocities against Kenyans as he visited the country. However, he stopped short of offering the apology that many Kenyans had been hoping for. KELVIN OGOME “There were abhorrent and unjustifiable acts of violence committed against Kenyans as they waged… a […]
Ghana’s Electoral Commission (EC) announced the victory of Vice President Alhaji Dr. Muhammadu Bawumia in the primaries held Saturday, November 4, 2023. Bawumia won 118,210 votes representing 61.47 percent of the votes as against 71,996 (35.52 percent) of his closest rival, Kennedy Ohene Agyapong. The two other contestants Owusu Afriyie Akoto and Francis Addae Nimo […]